Monday, October 18, 2010

The importance of Leaf Gutter Protection for your Ohio Home


Considering it's on the exterior of your home, your seamless gutters and downspouts require maintenance and cleaning if trees are in close proximity.
You may hear different sources tell you that you need to clean your gutters and downspouts at least two times a year.  Some will tell you three; others four.  While we don't disagree with keeping your gutters and downspouts clean, we do have different opinions with the frequency.
Uncovered gutters need to be cleaned everyday!  Yes everyday… at least before it rains and sometimes while it’s raining.
 Why is this you might say?!  Trees don’t shed leaves and seeds just during the fall.  They are shedding all year long.  It is true that here in Northwest Ohio most trees shed their leaves during the fall… but some oak trees will hold their leaves throughout the winter shedding all the while.  Pine trees are a gutters worst enemy; they shed all year long and will clog an uncovered gutter in no time at all…and Maple trees shed “helicopters”, “maple seeds”, or “propellers” during the spring.
The point we are trying to make is that in order to keep your gutters flowing and not overflowing, you need to have some type of gutter guard cover installed to keep the leaves out of your gutters.  It takes only one leaf to cover the hole leading to your downspout and cause your gutters to overflow. You could clean out all of your gutters today and tonight while your in bed, a couple of leaves fall in the gutter… just before you wake up a rain storm rolls through and your gutters are running over because a couple of leaves plugged off the hole to the downspout.
You have many gutter protection products to choose from.  Ones that will get you by from cleaning to cleaning and others that are guaranteed to never clog.  We will discuss the options in a future blog post, so stay tuned and come back frequently.
If you have any questions or would like a free consultation contact us here, call us at 419.532.3610, or visit our web site at www.altgutters.com.

6 comments:

  1. Gutter cleaning is house saving, as they say. If you want your house to last longer, you should clean your gutters. Make it a point to clean your gutters at least twice a year. You can even go further than that. You can clean it everyday, if you want to. :D

    -> Avis Brunswick

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